Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. Over the course of this past week I lost sight of what I know to be true. My circumstances are not meant to keep me down, but they are meant to build me up.
By forgetting this reality I allowed myself to fall into a funk. In the process of being in that funk I forgot that I had choices.
Earlier today while I was writing an email to a friend that I met through Second Chance to Live, a phrase that I heard about 15 years ago came to mind. While I was living in Florida a friend of mine used to say to me once we finished talking, ” Now go and make it a good day”.
Go and make it a good day puts life into perspective for me. Consequently, I can choose how I am going to live and experience my life — in today.
By owning this reality I can choose my perspective. Regardless of what might be going on — in my life and world — I can choose to go and make it a good day. I can choose to be empowered by my circumstance. I can choose to learn the lesson. I can choose to take advantage of the opportunity. I can choose to be encouraged.
I can choose to seize the moment — and make the moment work for me. I can choose to do the footwork and then let go of the outcomes. I can choose to trust the process.
Please read my series, Living with a Disability — What Empowers Me to Go and Make it a Good Day as an addendum to this article. Thank you.
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Craig
I acknowledge and applaud how you have embraced the power of choice. So many of us decide rather than choose. There is a powerful difference. The root of decide is cide, which is defined as “killing off.” It is the same root of homicide, pesticide, genocide, act. To decide requires a reason. When we determine our reason, our decision kills off possibility. When we choose, we do so unconditionally, from our own free will. We accept the outcome and we choose again.
You used the word choice so often and it was clear from your words, you are living powerfully, with acceptance, and are empowered by the result.
We guide the youth of our organization by this principle and remind them anything is possible.
Thank you for inspiring me today.
Hi Tom,
Thank you so very much for taking the time to leave a comment. I also greatly appreciate your words of encouragement. I have started a new series on *What Empowers Me to Go and Make it a Good Day”.
https://secondchancetolive.org/2009/04/06/what-empowers-me-to-go-and-make-it-a-good-day-part-1/
https://secondchancetolive.org/2009/04/07/what-empowers-me-to-go-and-make-it-a-good-day-part-2/
https://secondchancetolive.org/2009/04/09/traumatic-brain-injury-%e2%80%94-what-empowers-me-to-go-and-make-it-a-good-day-%e2%80%94-part-3/
https://secondchancetolive.org/2009/04/09/traumatic-brain-injury-%e2%80%94-what-empowers-me-to-go-and-make-it-a-good-day-%e2%80%94-part-4/
I would invite you to follow the series. In my experience, I needed to be able to work through the process — to be able to accept my reality. Please read the articles that I publish in the series and let me know what you think my friend. Thank you Tom.
Have a great day and thank you again for taking the time to leave a comment. God bless you Tom.
Craig